I'm not vegan, but I found Daiya fake cheese to be acceptable when I had a vegan roommate. It's a bit expensive though. It's not as good as expensive cheese, but I would rather eat it than some of the cheaper cheeses out there.
I have celiac disease but fortunately gluten-free pasta and bread do exist for my low-spoons days; however, they are more expensive than the normal kind. As a result I will often use corn tortillas as a sub for bread. One of my favourite low-spoons breakfasts (I have to have protein in the morning or I crash) is a microwaved hot dog with shredded cheese in a corn tortilla.
I personally like microwave quesadillas too! I literally make them the same way as a sandwich with maybe a bit more cheese than normal and then I nuke the hell out of the thing and enjoy me cheesy goodness at the low low spoon cost of slapping fridge stuff on top of a thing
Okay so I may be the last person on earth who's figured this out but here you go anyway. 10-for-a-buck ramen is a thing I don't eat on the regular but keep around to feed the massive salt cravings that come after long bike rides on hot days because that's pretty much the only thing that's easy to make and will scratch that itch. And that's great. But if you crack an egg into the broth and let it poach... hoooooooooooly shit son. You might have to gently reheat it a few times if you're using the microwave, but it's worth the extra couple of minutes. Salt craving AND protein craving handled. If runny eggs aren't a sensory problem, gently mixing the runny bits of the yolk into the broth is just. unf. so good.
Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here with my egg-yolk-and-sugar mix. Tastes like sugar, salmonellosis, and sadness. (And that's when I don't just shove sugar into my mouth.)
They have microwavable packets of rice that aren't too expensive. Not sure how many places have it though. Not sure about the flavors either, my grandpa normally gets the wild rice mix. Then when I was a preteen and my mom was tired a lot after having my baby brother (he was born early and was in the hospital for a while which stressed her out, then when he got out he was a newborn so required attention) I would cook hamburger helper for the family. One pan. Cook pound of beef. Drain beef. Dump in the hamburger helper and some water. Cover and cook and stir a bit till the dried bits are done. Hopefully that wouldn't be too difficult, I'm bad at judging that sort of thing. They have a few flavors there but my favorite was the stroganoff with potato slices.
Grilled ham-and-cheese for when you cannot brain adequately to deal with stoves: make sandwich, butter recommended but not required, pop in microwave for like a minute until cheese is melted. Same amount of effort as standard sandwich but melty cheese!
Not really low-effort, but if you microwave some butter til it melts and stir in enough sugar to make a mush and like a spoonful of flour its almost like a dessert for days when you're miserable and cant be fucked to real cookies. If you have nuts or chocolate chips those are tasty stirred in too but w/e if you dont its fine too.
Microwaves areworth their weight in gold imo. Id go without a stove before id go without a microwave, if i had the choice.
I like freezing drinks and eating that later, cause it's a way of making something consistently pleasant kinda time consuming, and I at least need a little of that when I get sad and bored. In my experience, Welsh's grape juice freezes soft and consistant, but for a thin layer of sticky goop on top that you can scrape off real easy. You're not gonna get a real good slushy out of it, but you can carve it up real easy with a spoon, which is fun. Soda is kinda bluh frozen solid, cause the flavor kinda sticks to the top layers and the whole thing gets all dirt tasting and way too hard to carve up easily, but if you manage to find the sweet spot before the whole thing freezes, you can chunk it into slush pretty easily. Store bought green tea just tastes like water frozen, but if you make your own you can prolly make it strong enough to keep its flavor. And you can prolly add frozen fruits and junk to taste. It's really simple, but I like it, so. Also, canned vegetables and beans. A can of black beans or kidney beans is a solid meal for when you can't be having more than one kinda thing going on at a time.
Those cans of chili beans, in the sauce. Dump thw can in a bowl, top with cheese, pop in micro til hot. Can eat them with saltines if you're feeling fancy.
I accidentily made ramen quite well at school. so usually right, you boil the water, put it on the noodles, and microwave, then eat. what happened was I couldnt boil water, so i got lukewarm water from the water fountain, went through the normal steps, then ran out of time to eat in during lunch period, so i put the lid mostly on with a small gap, and left it in my locker queue like hour and a half class time... last break rolls around, open the container, and the noodles has steamed, and absorbed more of the juice, and cooled down to a nice warm instead of burning. so largely just sitting around waiting. *shrug*
Not positive if this is the appropriate/best place for this request, but does anyone have any advice for relatively low-effort foods that are easy on your stomach? I have literally no idea what is going on with me, it might be stress, who knows, but my stomach, which normally only gets weird once or twice a year for a few days, has been super-touchy for the last two weeks. I am getting tired of living on oatmeal, turkey sandwiches and tamagoyaki (okay, mostly the first two, I could exist on tamagoyaki but I'm worried that's dangerous), but those are the only things that are not making my stomach too upset, and my doctor's appointment's not 'til next Monday. Any recommendations?
Plain rice? Chicken soup from a can? Crackers? ETA: Ooh! Applesauce is supposedly okay for upset stomachs, I think, and you just have to spoon it out the container you bought it in at the store :)
applesauce is the bets for upset tummies! If you can afford it and don't mind wierd looks those baby food jars are pretty good for upsetti spaghetti stomachs and low effort too
Foods that don't upset stomachs (as far as I've been told) are bananas, white rice, applesauce and toast.
Depending on what your stomach is doing, yogurt can be quite good and is a lot more nutritious than a lot of the easy on the stomach foods. Obviously doesn't work if you're lactose-intolerant, and if you're having acid problems you may want to find a less sour yogurt, but when I'm having prolonged digestive nonsense, it often helps me get back to being able to eat things.
So tip in case you aren't doing it already: instead of putting all your pots and pans away once they're clean, put some of them on unheated stove burners. Then the next time you want to cook something on your stove, you don't have to get out a pot. One less step. Also question: I bought canned peas and now I don't know what to do with them. What's a vegan, low-spoons use for them?
